"I've been talking to a number of acquaintances in Russia. These are well-educated professionals who speak English fluently, many of whom have lived/worked in the US/Europe. Some are highly critical of Putin, and many were very much opposed to the SMO."
Some observations:
(twitter.com)
💊 Russian Red Pill 💊
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Honestly half of europe might side against nato at this point. The real damage to europe wasnt the invasion of ukraine, it was the demolition of the pipelines from russia they rely on. And the US did that, not russia.
So why should they piss off their aggressive, behemoth neighbor who has done them no quantifiable harm, to please another aggressive behemoth across the ocean, who is the reason they have no heat in winter?
I have no idea how much those pipelines cost, but surely in modernity they can be rebuilt to be even better and more efficient. However, that there was an attack they tried to pin on the other side should definitely set a lot of people against us.
The problem is they are miles underwater so it might require whole new pipelines to be laid rather than trying to repair a breach at that depth. Either way it's a major undertaking
Absolutely a huge setback, but something that was built once can be built again. The biggest key is ensuring that it doesn't get destroyed again, and that means some accountability.
There is only one navy that has enough vessels to control international waters, and it's the one that blew up the pipeline in the first place. So talking about rebuilding is a futile gesture until the US/russia situation is resolved... which is why European countries depending on that pipeline behoove themselves to side with russia